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Central Oklahoma Nonprofits: Please consider submitting a Youth in Action grant request of up to $7,500 in funding for one of your organization’s projects which addresses the wellbeing of young people.
Youth in Action is a program of the Youth Leadership Exchange (which is a program of Leadership Oklahoma City) in which local high school students
• identify community needs,
• solicit funding requests from organizations working in the identified need area,
• select the proposal to fund,
• raise funds for the projects, and
• make the grants to the selected agency.
The purpose of Youth in Action is to teach the participants about community service by having them act as a mini-foundation to fund community improvement. The students learn meeting management and fund-raising skills, among others, and are better prepared to volunteer in their communities in substantive way.
In order to make the processes the class uses and decisions they reach “real,” actual grants are given by the class to local organizations. Up to $7500 is donated by the Youth in Action class. Leadership Oklahoma City seeds the program with $2500 towards the funding, and the youth raise about another $5000 from the business community, allowing them to fund a total of $7500 in community efforts.
The 2011-2012 Mission
We, the class members of Youth in Action Class XII seek to give hope to abused children by helping them obtain counseling, mentoring, and education. Our goal is to help the ones who can’t help themselves.
We encourage central Oklahoma nonprofit organizations to submit a proposal for funding. Up to $7500 may be requested. The students have, in the past classes, given all of their funds to a single project one year and divided their funds among several smaller projects another time. What they decide to do this year is up to them, and a decision they will make based on the proposals they receive.
Click here to download the 2011-2012 Youth in Action Grant Proposal Form
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